In northern Tajikistan, in the Sughd region, scientists have discovered a dinosaur bone dated 85 million years ago. During ...
The Paleontological Society Papers page on Cambridge Core now hosts all of the Paleontological Society’s digitally archived content from 1980 to 2016. Because there have been several name changes in ...
A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...
Changmiania liaoningensis discovered in the Yixian Formation and now hosted at the Liaoning Paleontological Museum in ...
For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...
The findings were published in the British paleontological journal, the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Mosasaurs are marine reptiles akin to lizards and snakes rather than dinosaurs.
当最后披毛犀占据更新世北境的同时,一群有巨大角且体重不逊于今天白犀的真板齿犀( Elasmotherium )也出现在西伯利亚等地。它们的亲缘关系和现存所有犀牛和披毛犀相对远一些,但也是真犀科成员。这些“独角兽”的祖先原本角很小或者没有,也就是早期的板齿犀族成员,后来在演化过程中出现了相对大的鼻角,再之后鼻角和额角逐渐合并成一个,头部也变得粗壮,体型也渐渐增大。
Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...
Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...
NEWS ANALYSIS. Fifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in ...
The Natural History Museum has a new “front porch” — a 75,000-square-foot exhibition space that’s free and open to the public starting Sunday.
He shipped some of his valuable research and findings to France while leaving the majority in China in the museum. For ...